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A small sailing vessel is not suited for trawling investigations 

 and the promoters were evidently much handicapped by want of 

 a proper boat. When further operations are undertaken it is to 

 be hoped that the whole project will be placed in competent 

 scif-ntific hands. The services i^f a professional Zoologist, in an 

 undertaking of this kind, should be recognised as a necessity in 

 Australia equally with Europe and America. 



Mr. Woodward asks me to state that the Trustees of the 

 AVestern Australian Museum are greatly indebted to Mr. C. F. 

 Gale, the Chief Inspector of Fisheries for Western Australia, 

 and to Mr. F. C. Broadhurst, for the fishes obtained by means of 

 the trawl. 



Catulus labiosus, sp. jior. 

 (Fig. 23). 



Length of head 7-75 in the total length ; width of head 1-06 ; 

 length of snout .3-2; interorbital width 2-66; width of mouth 

 1-54 ; diameter of eye 4-4 ; and length of pectoral fin I'l in that 

 of the head. 



Nasal valves separate, each produced into a lobe directed out- 

 wards and backwards ; the distance between the two slightly 

 more than the basal width of one lobe. No cirrus. A long 



labial fold round the 

 angles of the mouth, the 

 fold of the upper jaw 

 produced anteriorly be- 

 yond the lobe of the 

 nasal valve and to 

 within a short distance 

 of the nostril ; the folds 

 of the lower jaw ap- 

 proach each other to 

 within the length of 

 the base of one of the 

 nasal lobes. These fea- 

 tures are illustrated 

 in the accompanying- 

 Fig 2,:\. figure, which is two- 

 Caiidus lahiosus. thirds natural size. 

 Teeth in several rows in both jaws, those of the lower jaw, 

 the larger ; all have a small cusp on each side. Head much de- 

 pressed, its width considerably more than its length in achance 

 of the spiracles. Body elongate, the vent in advance of the 

 middle of the total length. First dorsal fin inserted above the 

 hinder edge of the vent. 



